Dr Ahmed Abdullah

I would like to begin with a disclaimer: I am not an expert, only a student of medicine and public health and for nearly two…

  I have spent almost twenty years as a family physician watching Pakistani children grow up. Or, in many cases, watching adults enthusiastically get in…

I have been a family physician in Pakistan for almost twenty years. In that time, I have seen more death than most people care to…

  THE idea of a jail, in its original conception, was never to destroy people, it was to transform them. When modern prison systems emerged…

EVERY time a new public-health intervention arrives in Pakistan, a familiar accusation surfaces: it will somehow harm our fertility. From the polio vaccination drives of…

IN my clinic, day after day, I meet women who cannot sleep, who carry invisible pain, who complain of chronic fatigue, palpitations, headaches or body…

I am not an expert in warfare, international relations or geopolitics. I am a physician and a public health educator and it is from this…

IN 2025, as tensions flare once again between India and Pakistan, our region finds itself trapped in an all-too-familiar loop. Fighter jets take off, politicians…

IT is a question I find myself asking more often; where have all the words gone. In my clinical practice over the past few years,…

SAADAT Hasan Manto’s works, written decades ago, remain hauntingly relevant to the Pakistan of today. His essays such as “Sawal Paida Hota Hai” and his…